The hardware, software and service offerings unveiled during Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote address Monday made for the biggest story to come out of the event. But there was another, a story told in numbers — really big numbers. Liberally sprinkled throughout the keynote were a bunch of metrics and data points that collectively amount to a brief State of the Union for Apple.
Below, a rundown of those numbers:
- This was Apple’s 23rd WWDC, making it the longest-running developer conference around.
- It sold out in one hour and 43 minutes.
- It hosts attendees from more than 60 countries.
- There are 400 million App Store accounts.
- And there are about 650,000 apps in the App Store itself.
- 225,000 of those apps are designed specifically for iPad.
- 30 billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store so far.
- The App Store has generated five billion dollars in revenue for developers.
- Soon, Apple will bring the App Store to 32 more countries, making it available in a grand total of 155 countries.
- There are 66 million Mac users — triple the number Apple had just five years ago.
- 26 million copies of Lion have been shipped so far.
- 40 percent of OS X users are running Lion.
- Mountain Lion will be the eighth major release of OS X.
- It will feature more than 200 new features and 1,700 new APIs.
- iCloud’s user base has grown to 125 million.
- Through the end of March, Apple had sold 365 million iOS devices.
- More than 80 percent of iOS users are running iOS 5.
- There are currently 140 million iMessage users.
- They send around one billion iMessages per day.
- iOS has delivered 1.5 trillion push notifications so far.
- There are currently 130 million Game Center accounts.
- Five billion scores have been posted from them.
- More than 10 billion tweets have been sent from iOS 5.
- About 47 percent of all photos posted to Twitter are sent from devices running iOS 5.